Pew Poll: Majority Would Still Blame GOP for Fiscal Cliff Failure
That recent CNN poll showing a majority of Americans would blame the GOP if the country goes over the fiscal cliff apparently wasn’t an outlier. A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found...
View ArticleObama’s Tax Policy Aims for the Rich but Hits the Poor
Although the Occupy Wall Street protest movement often shunned both organization and the formation of a coherent set of principles and demands, its antipathy to Wall Street–hence the name of the...
View ArticleBarack Obama as Captain Ahab
One of the things that has become apparent during the presidential campaign and now, during the negotiations over how to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” is the importance the president places on raising the...
View ArticleWH Running Out Clock on Fiscal Cliff Negotiations?
Because Republicans are more likely to be blamed for any fiscal cliff fallout, the closer they get to the deadline the more pressure they’ll be under to make concessions. Which is why the White House...
View ArticleFair Share
For some time now, liberals have been demanding—their visages positively aglow with sweet reasonableness—that “the rich” should pay their “fair share” in taxes in order to help the government meet its...
View ArticlePoll: 60% Support Tax Hikes on the Wealthy
More bad fiscal cliff news for Republicans, from the Politico/GWU Battleground Poll today: A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds that 60 percent of respondents support...
View ArticleRE: Poll: 60% Support Tax Hikes on the Wealthy
I certainly agree with Alana that the Republicans are in a tough spot. But I’m not sure how valid any of these polls about public opinion on the issue are. Unlike when the choice is either A or B, as...
View ArticleWhat If Conservatives Have Lost the Argument?
The debate over the “fiscal cliff” is an important tactical one and could have widespread political ramifications. There are complicated issues to consider. Should the Republicans give in to Mr....
View ArticleGallup: Americans Want Fiscal Cliff Compromise
The latest Gallup poll has two interesting, and seemingly contradictory, findings: President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner met at the White House on Sunday, but there has yet been...
View ArticleA Clash of Mandates
All throughout the debate over Obamacare, polls showed the public opposed to the bill. That did nothing to stop Democrats from pushing the legislation through Congress, of course, and voters responded...
View ArticleNearly Half of Republicans Say Obama Has “Mandate” on Taxes
Another day, another bad “fiscal cliff” poll for the GOP. Bloomberg finds that nearly half of Republicans agree that the presidential election has given Obama a mandate to raise tax rates on the top...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Dems’ Cheap Populism
Last week, I wrote about the fact that President Obama’s approach to taxes as part of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is billed as taxing the rich but would end up hurting the poor and possibly...
View ArticleThe Difference Between a Concession and a Confession
One of the arguments some intelligent conservatives are making is that if Republicans agree to increase rates on the top earners in America, it will do irreparable damage to the GOP. The basic case...
View ArticleThe Right’s Latest Meaningless Purity Test
In a strange about-face today, FreedomWorks has decided to withdraw its support of House Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” a day after declaring its support for the plan. Yesterday Dean Clancy,...
View ArticleThose Courageous Liberals
The question at the heart of the Chuck Hagel controversy was always whether President Obama actually wanted Hagel as his secretary of defense, or whether it was all a gimmick to trick the press into...
View ArticleHappy New Year, America
If you’d like to have your New Year’s Eve thoroughly ruined, I’d suggest taking a look today at Mortimer Zuckerman’s piece over at USNews.com, “Brace for an Avalanche of Unfunded Debt.” It’s so...
View ArticleObama Sets Stage for Conflict
Just as it looked like a fiscal cliff deal was coming together, President Obama gave a partisan, sarcastic speech this afternoon that seemed intended to set back the entire process. As Jonathan wrote,...
View ArticleA Bad Deal Beats a Calamitous Outcome
The deal to avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff was a lousy one: tax rate increases during a weak economy, no spending reductions, nothing on entitlement reform. And yet if House Republicans...
View ArticleThe Boehner-Cantor Rift and the Speaker Election
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor broke with Speaker John Boehner on the fiscal cliff deal vote yesterday, fueling speculation that he may challenge Boehner in Thursday’s Speaker election. At the...
View ArticleMr. Obama’s Planet
Saul Bellow used to joke that while the unexamined life is not worth living, the examined life will make you wish you were dead. The political equivalent might be that we can’t live with taxation...
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